AMD released its latest version of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite to date, Catalyst 9.12 WHQL, which provides drivers and system software for the company's ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series chipset IGPs, ATI multimedia products, and the AMD FireStream GPGPU processors. Version 9.12 announced today, comes with expanded GPU support for DirectCompute 10.1 for specific GPUs, includes performance increments, OpenGL 3.2 extension support, along with the usual application-specific fixes.

To begin with, application-specific performance increments include an overall performance improvement as high as 9% on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, for 3DMark Vantage. GT1 – Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%. Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat. The release provides DirectCompute 10.1 support for ATI Radeon HD 4800 and HD 4700 GPUs in both single and multi-GPU configurations. Lastly, this release adds support for certain OpenGL 3.2 extensions for all GPUs from Radeon HD 2000 series and upward (HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000).

83 Comments on ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released

Just asking if anyone had this problem with an HD5870 when playing game like MW2 or other game. It display a verticle line (artifacting) in game at a certain point and the only fix is to clock the card below defualt? Has this issue been fix in 9.12? Or is it just my Asus hd5870?

"Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that takes advantage of the massively parallel processing power of a modern graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate PC application performance in Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7. DirectCompute is part of the Microsoft DirectX collection of APIs. Other DirectX APIs include Direct3D, Direct2D, DirectWrite, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, and DirectSound."

by: my_name_is_earlJust asking if anyone had this problem with an HD5870 when playing game like MW2 or other game. It display a verticle line in game at a certain point and the only fix is to clock the card below defualt? Has this issue been fix in 9.12? Or is it just my Asus hd5870?

Unfortunately, that sounds like an RMA waiting to happen, having to underclock your card usually means faulty cooling. One possibility is re-applying thermal paste.

I'm very dissapointed with these drivers.There are like 20+ topics on the ATI forums for problems with Modern Warfare 2,but ATI hasn't fixed even one of those problems.I personally have AWFUL framerates on the multiplayer in maps like Highrise,Estate and Favela and I have HD4850.

by: Ghost_LeaderI'm very dissapointed with these drivers.There are like 20+ topics on the ATI forums for problems with Modern Warfare 2,but ATI hasn't fixed even one of those problems.I personally have AWFUL framerates on the multiplayer in maps like Highrise,Estate and Favela and I have HD4850.

I had a similar problem back in the day when I was sporting my brand new, super powerful X850 XT PE! The problem is called tearing and this occurs when your video card is pumping out too many frames per second for your monitor to handle. Turn on V-Sync to test if my theory is correct. Your game play will feel different with V-Sync on but just play for 15 minutes and see if this tearing happens. Once I realized that my video card was too powerful, I turned off V-Sync and my brain forgot about the problem because it was an awesome problem to have :)

I had a similar problem back in the day when I was sporting my brand new, super powerful X850 XT PE! The problem is called tearing and this occurs when your video card is pumping out too many frames per second for your monitor to handle. Turn on V-Sync to test if my theory is correct. Your game play will feel different with V-Sync on but just play for 15 minutes and see if this tearing happens. Once I realized that my video card was too powerful, I turned off V-Sync and my brain forgot about the problem because it was an awesome problem to have :)

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Lol, maybe I should max out every setting so that it will get lower frame rate. I'll try that first thing when I get home.

by: my_name_is_earlLol, maybe I should max out every setting so that it will get lower frame rate. I'll try that first thing when I get home.

Hahaha... congrats on the 5870. All the visual tearing I've seen is horizontal, looks like portions of the screen aren't keeping up with eachother - and that's exactly what it is from everything I've read.

Worth a try before an RMA! If you got it from Newegg, they'll usually let you purchase a new one and refund when they've recieved your old one, assuming it's in stock and same price.

by: SasquiHahaha... congrats on the 5870. All the visual tearing I've seen is horizontal, looks like portions of the screen aren't keeping up with eachother - and that's exactly what it is from everything I've read.

Worth a try before an RMA! If you got it from Newegg, they'll usually let you purchase a new one and refund when they've recieved your old one, assuming it's in stock and same price.

1 month trial is over :( So this one is going to manufacture = double :(

i sent u a pm earl i suggest you talk to newegg as they rmad my 4870x2 which died 7months from purchase and they gave me a full refund so 9/10 they will send u a new card or a complete refund but i suggest calling them over chat etc

Anyone who have a verticle line crash, lock-up, stuttering, etc... with HD5870 may want to do the following. You can also get bios from other card as well. Look at the topics on AMD/ATI forum. It sounded like a promising fix but I don't guarantee anything.

by: my_name_is_earlAnyone who have a verticle line crash, lock-up, stuttering, etc... with HD5870 may want to do the following. You can also get bios from other card as well. Look at the topics on AMD/ATI forum. It sounded like a promising fix but I don't guarantee anything.

The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream 9200 Series of products.